LS DOUGLAS v. Hoeh

SATZ, Judge.

This is an action for damages against a sheriff and the surety on his bond for the making of a false return.

In Count I of a two Count petition, plaintiff L. S. Douglas sued defendant Harold W. Hoeh, for actual and punitive damages on the alleged grounds that defendant Hoeh, as Sheriff of St. Louis County, had made a false return to the service of summons and petition in another lawsuit, which caused a default judgment to be entered in that suit against plaintiff, without notice to him. In Count II, plaintiff alleged defendant Reliance Insurance Companies 1 was Sheriff Hoeh’s…